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Sunday, March 1, 2015

Peach Crumb Slab Pie is a fun way to serve pie like a bar. The crust is rolled to fit a rimmed jelly roll pan and shaped into a rectangle instead of round.

You can experiment with other fruits that are available throughout the year. If using fresh fruits add juice of one lemon to avoid browning but now I used canned peaches that have been drained well.

We are not adding much sugar to the filling since the peaches are already sweetened. Adding sugar to the crust as well but this is entirely up to your preference.

Don't worry if your crust tears while you're rolling it out, just patch it back together. You'll know it's good when you press the dough into ball shape. If it is overly dry, add one tablespoon of ice water at a time. At this point, you can cover and refrigerate it.

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Homemade rolls are easy to make especially if you use bread maker but mine are made by hand from start to finish. With homemade rolls, you can easily customize the ingredients you are going to add for instance this Heart Shaped Kaya Rolls, you can omit egg or milk by substituting with soy or almond milk.

Really, you can use any basic sweet bread recipe and varies the filling. This time, I used kaya (coconut jam) as the stuffing. Be prepared to encounter messiness along the way. In fact my filling is overflowing at the time of rolling. as you can see from my photo below.

Nevertheless they turned out fabulous and tasted awesome! The are no harder to make and are a great way to dress them up for special occasion.

Sunday, February 15, 2015

I had some overripe bananas sitting on my kitchen counter so I decided that my next project would be related to banana.

As usual, used only half cup of sugar instead of 3/4 cup since not keen to have over sweetened muffin.

Moist Banana Muffin are perfect treat for breakfast or great for tea time too. Straightforward, simple and just like your favorite banana bread but in muffin form.

You can add 1/4 cup of chopped nuts to the batter and no harm will come to the end result or you may want to add a little dried fruit to the mix. For more interesting flavor, add some finely grated orange or lemon zest or cinnamon instead of vanilla essence.

Sunday, February 8, 2015

I baked this Marble Cake made from simple butter cake with a little twist. Turned this into marble cake by adding two striking colors, red and green. The color combination is entirely up to you, use 2 or 4 colors if you want.

Accidentally add too much green color to the cake batter so it turns out darker deep tone luckily that doesn't alter its taste.

Cube the butter right after you have removed from the refrigerator.to speed up the creaming process.

In case you have self raising flour, use it but omit the baking powder.